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>I guarantee you if IQ wasn't a measure white people did well at it would have never been adopted as a measure. Even scientists who say the black-white IQ gap
by Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago
>I guarantee you if IQ wasn't a measure white people did well at it would have never been adopted as a measure.
Even scientists who say the black-white IQ gap is not in part due to genetic factors agree that it does measure intelligence to some extent: that is, people with higher intelligence do better on average on IQ tests, even if each IQ point is not a numeral unit adding to your intelligence 'score.' All this said, why would you assume that people using this tests only are doing so for biased reasons?
- yawboakye 3y agoit's still not clear what IQ measures, in the grand scheme of things. and i think this is the bulk of its problem. what sort of intelligence? relevant for what? unfortunately, the laziest among us who see these standardize tests are easy way to do their job embraced it wholeheartedly and have deployed it wickedly. at what point should an IQ test be taken? and what's its expiry date? mr. cipolla wrote his seminal basic laws of human stupidity[0] some 70 years after IQ tests were introduced. perhaps not important in the grand scheme of things but one wonders why there's not even as much as a mere allusion. [0]: http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/ http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidit...
- Vt71fcAqt7 3y agoWe don't know exactly what it measures, but we are not surprised that myelination[0] and dendrite length[1] increase with IQ. [0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-017-0001-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-017-0001-5 [1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39946-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39946-9